O impacto do sobrepeso e da obesidade na saúde e na aptidão cardiorrespiratória em adolescentes da cidade de Cristais Paulista/SP

Abstract

Currently overweight and obesity are the most serious public health problems worldwide. Overweight and obesity can affect cardiovascular health and fitness status. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity, the level of fitness and physical activity, and make possible correlations and associations of the variables mentioned in students in the 9th (ninth) year of the School of Basic Education Amelio Paula Coelho, Paulo Crystal –SP Brazil. For this we used the Body Mass Index (BMI) to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity, the VO2 max test (Bench of McArdle), to assess the level of cardiorespiratory fitness and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) to assess the level of physical activity. The analysis of results for this cohort study was conducted using statistical software GraphPadInStat for Windows ® and the significance value of 0.05 was adopted for all statistical procedures. The prevalence of overweight and obesity was 26.1% for both sexes, 31.6% for males and 22% for females. The classification of poor cardiorespiratory fitness level was 20.5%, 26.3% and 16% respectively for both sexes, male and female. The level of IPAQ “insufficiently active” showed in 13.6%, 13.2% and 14% respectively for both sexes, males and females. There was negative correlation between overweight and obesity and the level of cardiorespiratory fitness. Other correlations observed in this study were not significant. These results confirm the expectation of this study, which verifies the direct interference of overweight and obesity in cardiorespiratory fitness.